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[joecoolswat]

jesterbelle....take care, I have to check the a/c...good night 4 aces

[jesterbelle]

jesterbelle.....all I''''m saying is pick on someone your own size....lol!


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Posted by JoeCoolSwat at 07:22 PM : Jun 09, 2008

LOL!She actually left once,and I egged her into some more,LOL!You know how nasty I can be.

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Heeeeere''s Johnny, Is This News??

McCover-Up: Abramoff & the GOP Money Machine
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:52 pm
Column: Mark G. Levey

The Crimes And Cover-Ups Of John McCain

Senator McCover-Up: Abramoff & the GOP Foreign Money Machine

I. Background: GOP Foreign Influence Peddling

Senator John McCain has proved to be Jack Abramoff%u2019s best friend.

As Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee from 2005-2007, McCain was instrumental in suppressing evidence of Jack Abramoff%u2019s role in directing illegal foreign payoffs to ranking members of the Republican Party.

McCain also did a big favor for Abramoff%u2019s principal partners in crime, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed , identified in the 2006 Committee report as key players in the Choctaw Indian and Marianas Island scandals. Not one of the principal witnesses in the matter were compelled to publicly testify by McCain''s panel. The Committee also sequestered 99 percent of the documents it received, and these remain locked away, unseen by the public, in Senate files.

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[joecoolswat]

RobRoyh390....because when you have visited Iraq, more than any other Senator, you have to view areas that are dangerous, currently in combat, or may be hostile....so fu-cking what, he needs some protection, we should protect our Senators from Islamic snipers, and explosive devices....crawl back to your country

[robroyh390]

cold777.....did a large number of Terrorists die, for fu-cking with the U.S.? Yes they did....message sent..."don''''t mess with the U.S.", mission accomplished

Posted by JoeCoolSwat at 07:20 PM : Jun 09, 2008"

Joe ******* - have thousands of US troops been killed and maimed for starting wars with no reason ? Yes
Has the Us wasted $hundreds of billions on a stupid un necessary war ? Yes

Message to the american people - stop electing retarded braindead baboons (ie conservatives) as your leader

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II. Senator McCover-up: Why McCain Was Chosen by GOP Leadership to Oversee the Abramoff Investigation

By late 2005, it was becoming clear as the Justice Department started scratching the surface of Abamoff''s influence-peddling network that its exposure was going to be politically explosive, and that it was going to blow up the Republicans. Details started coming out that showed the scandal was more sinister than the mere rip-off of Indian tribes by their Washington lobbyists. The Wall Street Journal, observed in article entitled, %u201CAbramoff Scandal Threatens to Embroil GOP%u201D :
%u201CThe Justice Department''s probe is far broader than previously thought . . . its focus on prominent Republicans raises the risk of serious embarrassment to the party before next year''s congressional elections.%u201D

The Republican Congressional leadership recognized the problem. McCain was perfectly positioned to be the one to manage it. He had previously served as the Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, and most importantly, he had some credibility as a %u201Cmaverick%u201D reformer and a track record of highly publicized enmity with one of the primary suspects as a base to build on. McCain%u2019s talent for damage-control was demonstrated early-on in his Senate career, when he survived his involvement in the Keating Savings & Loan scandal.

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IV. McCain Covered Up the Malfeasances of his Fellow Senators

So, in 2005, %u201CStraight-Talk%u201D McCain was the natural pick as Chairman of Indian Affairs to replace the former Chair Ben Nighthorse Campbell after his sudden resignation. Campbell%u2019s sudden retirement from the Senate has never really been explained. What we do know is what followed: Link

By the time McCain took control of the investigation started by Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who retired from the Senate in 2005, investigators knew that Ralph Reed had taken large amounts of Indian casino money in more than one state. What Reed and Abramoff did to one small tribe in Texas justified bringing Reed before the committee and putting him under oath, as was done with Abramoff. Perhaps Reed was never called because he was too powerful to confront, or because he was still considered a prospect for elected office. But he got a walk, and the Tigua tribe in El Paso never got a full accounting of what Reed and Abramoff had done to them.

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V. McCain%u2019s Missing Documents

Indeed, the Abramoff scandal seems to have become %u201CThe Case of the Amazing Vanishing Corruption Investigation%u201D, as Scott Horton recently described it in Harper%u2019s. Link

While the Committee never heard from the principals in the case, what it did receive were their records. As Committee Chairman, John McCain made shrewd use of Senate rules to subpoena 750,000 pages of documents related to Abramoff%u2019s lobbying -- literally tons of Abramoff scandal documents %u2013 billing records, memos, appointment calendars -- keeping 99.7 percent of them out of the record, and buried the rest in locked files in the basement of the Hart Senate Office Building . Link

This scandal eerily parallels an earlier betrayal of Native American peoples overseen by John McCain while he was Chairman of that Indian Affairs Committee. McCain has served on the Committee since 1987, and previously headed the committee between 1995 and 1997, a period when the Indian Lands Trust scandal was in full-bloom for the rip-off of billions of dollars worth of land leases supposedly held in trust by the federal government.

VI. McCain%u2019s Trusted Role in Protecting the GOP Foreign-Money Machine.

Abramoff and Norquist operated a foreign influence-peddling network that funneled money to the Bush White House and selected Republican Congressmen from the dirtiest of dirty money sources, including terrorist bankers and ex-KGB oil barons. According to Newsweek:

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During the 2004 campaign, Abramoff was a top fund-raiser for the Bush re-election effort, raising more than $100,000 for the campaign. While exact figures on how much he raised for the campaign aren%u2019t known, Abramoff told The New York Times in July 2003 - months before active fund-raising began - that he had already raised $120,000 for the Bush-Cheney campaign.

In addition, between 1999 and 2005, Abramoff, entities under his control, and his clients %u201Cgave a total of $4.4 million to more than 240 members of Congress.%u201D Link The largest recipient of that largesse was Arizona Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth, who received $101,620, before he was defeated in the 2006 election. Large amounts of cash, $217,000, even filtered down to two GOP Arizona State Senators. Link

Much of that money came out of GOP slush funds controlled by Abramoff and his confederates. What the public wasn%u2019t told by McCain was that a large portion of the income taken in by Abramoff and others came from sources under investigation by U.S intelligence and counter-terrorism. McCain withheld from public release the vast bulk of subpoenaed lobbying records related to a period when Abramoff engaged in extremely serious improprieties on behalf of those non-Indian tribe clients, including:

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[joecoolswat]

jesterbelle.....all I''m saying is pick on someone your own size....lol!